Person L show that good things can happen when people get bored of playing pop-punk-emo; The Positives is a patchy but promising indie-retro-rock album.

Duncan Harris dives deep into Nebula’s psychedelic ocean of stoner riffola on the trio’s latest full-length offering, the appropriately named Heavy Psych.

If you don’t buy and love New Moon Hand by Willem Maker, I’m going to park a festival PA outside your house and play it on repeat until you do.

Helmet-wearin’ arch-top-pluckin’ oddball bluesman legend Bob Log III arrives in bohemian Brighton; won’t someone please put their boob in his drink?

My Shit Is Perfect has the lo-fi drawl and the monkey-paw Delta blues slide guitar, but the insane genius of Bob Log III is best understood by seeing it live.

If you thought the UK had a monopoly on banal MOR dadrock, think again – The Steepwater Band’s Grace & Melody is beautifully made but duller than dishwater.

Take a trip back to a side of the late eighties you don’t often hear; Heaven’s End and Fade Out saw Loop forging the shoegaze blueprint in blissful obscurity.

Nottingham three-piece Lords have pretty much nailed the whole retro blues-rock thing with second album Everyone Is People.

Brace yourselves – TK Webb and The Visions just rolled into town with Ancestor, an impeccably produced slab of guitar-worshipping stadium blues rock.

White Denim seem to have completely reinvented the idea of the music single; “Shake Shake Shake” is quite possibly the best way to waste three minutes created this year.